Palestine Costume

16 May, 2005 | This item was filled under [ Art, Culture, Palestine, Photos, Regional ]

Update: I regret that I had to remove the photos from Flickr for copyright issues. You can still view the photos and more here: http://www.palestinecostumearchive.org/

A sample of Costumes from my homeland - Palestine. A photo collection I gathered from the net can be viewed here.
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Child's quilt 1991, showing contemporary use of the Palestinian heremezy appliqu� technique (Palestine Costume Archive, Canberra)

Palestinian child’s quilt

Bethlehem wedding jacket taqsireh 1930's-1940's

Bethlehem wedding jacket

Bethlehem headdress shatweh, c1920's (Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait) Qabbeh from Bethlehem thob malak abu wardeh 1940's (Tareq Rajab Museum, Kuwait - Lady Gloria Dale Collection, 1994)

A sample of the type of traditional embroidery with modern colouring produced by In'ash El Usra

Join ‘Palestine Photo Group’ and start adding more photos here.

Posted by Haitham Sabbah
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8 Comments on “Palestine Costume”

  • Eman
    17 May, 2005, 9:35

    Haitham, this is simply BEAUTIFUL!
    As usual, great job. I was collecting similar stuff for a while to post about, but your collection turned out a lot better than mine :P Anyway, I’ll keep collecting and your photos in the Palestine Photo Group will be a great reference :)

  • Roba
    17 May, 2005, 11:54

    I agree with Eman. It’s wonderful! I absolutely love tatreez, its one of my favorite things about our culture. Thanks a lot for sharing!

  • Haitham
    17 May, 2005, 19:00

    Dear Eman and Roba, both of you are members of ‘Palestine Photo Group’, so all what you need to do is upload the photos that you have to your Flickr account, then share it with ‘Palestine Photo Group’.
    Of course the more the better. So all are welcome to add more.

    Looking forward to see your collection, Eman :-)

  • sume
    17 May, 2005, 19:19

    Thanks for the invitation, Haitham. What a great idea. Looks like the photo pool is coming along nicely.

  • Haitham
    17 May, 2005, 20:42

    You are welcome, Sume.

    The members of ‘Palestine Photo Group’ doubled since this post, and the photo pool is also booming up. Pray for more :-D

  • Lina
    17 May, 2005, 23:39

    One of my wild dreams was to start a fashion business that can incorporate this BEAUTIFUL art of traditional costumes into contemporary clothing! We’re missing out on a lot by not embracing this art and showing it as part of our everyday image!

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